Wednesday, March 16, 2016

COMP6023 Class 07.3

Attendance was poor.

We looked at Google Analytics

COMP6023 Classes 07.1 & 07.2 Lab B

Attendance was poor.  I spoke briefly about content management systems (CMSs).

I asked students to log into the WordPress accounts I had set up for them and to have a poke around.

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

COMP6023 Class 07.1 & 07.2 Lab A

I spoke briefly about content management systems (CMSs).

I asked students to ling into the WordPress accounts I had set up for them and to have a poke around.

Friday, March 11, 2016

COM8035 Class 06.3

Nobody turned up.

There will be no more Friday classes for this module.

Thursday, March 10, 2016

COMP6023 Class 06.4

We looked and transparency in images and PNG

I talked a bit about the assignments

COMP6023 Class 06.3

We looked at GIF and JPEG

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Why We Post

This is a very interesting website describing the results of some research in Social Media.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/why-we-post

COMP6023 Classes 06.1 & 06.2 Labs B

Students worked on the image compression assignment.

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

COMP8035 Schedule


For you to be on schedule you should have a draft of you essay completed by the end of the month. Please send it on to me, when you have it done.

COMP8035 Classes 06.1 & 06.2

We had presentations from Jasmin and Kieran.  Albert was scheduled for today, but he will do his another day.

COMP6023 Classes 06.1 & 06.2 Lab A

Students worked on the images assignment. Except for a few who were working on something for another module.

Friday, March 4, 2016

COMP8035 Class 05.3

I met with each student and discussed his/her essay and/or presentation.

Thursday, March 3, 2016

COMP6023 Class 05.4

We looked at compression, interpolation, indexed colour and dithering.

After class the class rep told me that some students were concerned because I had flagged blog posts that needed attention, but had not detailed exactly what was wrong with them.  In almost all of those cases there problems were errors of spelling or grammar.  Blog posts with incorrect spelling and grammar will get low marks.  However, it it up to each student check the blog posts for errors.  I did that for the first week, so that each student was aware of the kinds of errors he or she was making. But I won't be doing that for subsequent posts.  Furthermore, the absence of a comment from me is not an indication that it was perfect.

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

COMP6023 Class 05.3

We looked at the Lab and CYMK colours systems.

COMP6023 Classes 05.1 & 05.2

I showed students how to use Photoshop to save images at various quality settings. I explained everything needed for the assignment.

I showed students how to make pages in Blogger.

I mentioned during the lab that anyone using a logarithmic scale instead of a linear one, would want to explain that choice in the report. Otherwise it will come across as a mistake rather than a deliberate choice.

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

COMP8035 Classes 05.1 & 05.2

Brian, Karl, and Dillion gave presentations.

COMP6023 Photoshop






Photoshop can be used for very sophisticated image editing. We will use very few of its features in this class.  But it's a great tool to learn if you have the time.

There are lots of tutorials online.




So many that there is even a parody of them.

COMP6023 Class 05.1 & 05.2

I showed students how to use Photoshop to save images at various quality settings. I explained everything needed for the assignment.

I showed students how to make pages in Blogger.

I mentioned during the lab that anyone using a logarithmic scale instead of a linear one, would want to explain that choice in the report. Otherwise it will come across as a mistake rather than a deliberate choice.